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Etherion, a New Gas?

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SOME months ago the discovery of a new gas, by Mr. C. Brush, was announced by nearly all the scientific periodicals of the world, which was said to be endowed with quite extraordinary properties; as, for instance, density one ten-thousandth of hydrogen, molecular velocity and heat conductivity hundred times that of hydrogen!

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DE SMOLAN, M. Etherion, a New Gas?. Nature 59, 223–224 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059223a0

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